ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

btw can i just say...

OUT IN THE STREETS THEY CALL IT MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAA

:-D

the "welcome to jamrock"/biggie mash up probably would've made my top 10

Here's the first half, btw, for anyone who wants to catch up: ILM Top 100 2000-2004: TRACKS

I just noticed, though. Why the heck did we do it in August of 2004? There are probably a few songs that fell in the gap between the two polls.

LIVE FROM THE WAL MART

LETS GO GET SOME VIDEO GAMES

OOOH OOOH AAAAAAHAAAA

dog latin, I like your break-down, even though you're dissing the one track of mine that's made it (Stuck Between Stations).

everyone's heard the Jamrock sample source, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aBopPKr6uU

Just listened to the songs I hadn't heard before...

Liked: Girls, Big Boi (unexpectedly!), Cortney Tidwell
Meh: Ne-Yo, Washed Out (if you're just going to pick one chillwave song, why this? Oh, wait...), The Dream, Camera Obscura, Chamillionaire, Future of the Left
Disliked: Hold Steady (most inexplicable appearance), Jackie Chain (like a happy version of that Salem thing)

e-rob - I like that much better than anything in the results so far.

ha, well it's not entirely fair judging against some of Sly & Robbie's best work.

[i]"Booooo! Angry rock music! Oh no! He'll damage his voice, mummy make it stop. Why?!!! Can't we put on The Dream again??"<i/>

lol and not far off from my reaction to that song...alright, being half-Welsh I'll try it again

It reminds me of the Concretes a little bit.

they share a producer. and bodily fluids

wow i'd never heard the cortney tidwell track before, it's great. with a few exceptions i am liking this list a lot so far.

Cortney made my top five! :D

10 people voted for Washed Out??!!?!?!

they just did it to wind you up

so far two of my votes, Marley and Jackie Chain. "Hyph Mngo" was literally the last track I removed from my ballot.

two for me too, just Big Boi and Jamrock. lots of different tracks making it by artists I voted for tho.

I wish I had ranked my ballot. I was all twisted up about the difficulties of ranking songs from totally different styles, but I should have just not worried so much about that and given lots of points to the tracks that needed my help the most. I would like to have seen some reggaeton on this list but doubt any will make it (except maybe Gasolina).

80. YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Zero" (2009) [221.5 points, 9 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGNo8RL5kM

Alright let's goo!!

alright, a new day!

boo, another boring '09 GAPDY pick! something we didn't just see in last year's list a few months ago please!

Amazing - something people liked before makes the list! Quit moaning.

lots and lots of 09 stuff. was last year a sea-change year for music or something; so much so that things from before sound old hat?

i'm just kidding. but seriously, i'm looking forward to seeing more stuff from '05-'08, it's just not as exciting to see repeats from the yearly poll we just did. (xpost)

"Zero" is a great choon though.

like, I squeezed the top 4 singles from my '09 list way down at the bottom of my ballot for this, partly because I just don't rate the year that high, partly because I'm more interested to see how the canon from previous years has already changed shape.

"Zero" kind of seems really old to me now, though. Is that just me? Maybe I've just heard it so many times, but it almost seems as old as "Date With the Night" and "Maps," even though there's a six year difference.

I never really gave the new YYYs a chance partly because of that, JF...it's like Maps but less timeless. In one ear and out the other.

I didn't really mean it like that. I meant that this song has already managed to enshrine itself so well within the YYYs identity that it's hard for me to fathom it only having come out a year ago.

fwiw, i agree w/ that skip. it's v disposable 2 me and id never mention it in the same breath as maps

79. CHROMATICS "In the City" (2006) [223.5 points, 8 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOxribt3kA

aaah yeah

Virtually everything on this list is making me think "WTF, people still rate that?" I do love how Lex is pretending he didn't really like that Robyn track at the time though.

fwiw, i agree w/ that skip. it's v disposable 2 me and id never mention it in the same breath as maps

I never liked "Maps," or any Yeah Yeah Yeahs, before "Zero." I think they appeal to different listeners.

The exception is the Courtney Tidwell track which should be at least 50 places higher.

Interesting...I would have voted for this a year ago but I've gone off most of the IDIB camp...

xxxp youre right this wasnt even hard to find:

'Be Mine' is perfect in every way, from the swoop of the strings to the jitter of the beats to the jacking of 'Time After Time' to the amazing lyrics.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:13 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol!

it's one of the few "what was i thinking" moments of my music listening career

I didn't really mean it like that. I meant that this song has already managed to enshrine itself so well within the YYYs identity that it's hard for me to fathom it only having come out a year ago.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 1, 2010 2:08 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know you didn't, just going off on a tangent.

"In the City" is really boring.

It's still a good song, it's one of the few where Robyn actually works (the others being Who's That Girl and With Every Heartbeat). She's much better doing sincerity then she is doing wacky.

hey i try not to fuck with polls beyond year-end but there's tons of good tracks on this so good job everyone.

78. THE FALL "Blindness" (2005) [225.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPg3A9Mz-cI

No one? I know there at least nine of you who like this, and one of you very much.

i never really pay attention to the Fall anymore, but this one is pretty great.

Do you like The Fall - Y/N?

77. MAXWELL "Pretty Wings" (2009) [227 points, 9 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPy4yq7EJo

xp Y

...Waow! Didn't really expect to see "Blindness"!

alright! another track i voted for, albeit another '09 one.